This workshop will demonstrate how it can help people with limited mobility overcome some of the challenges they face in accessing recreational activities.
It will also show how such a simple idea of riding a trishaw can tackle many social issues including:

• Social Isolation
• Lack of confidence
• Experiencing the ‘right to wind your hair’
• Getting outdoors and getting active
• Empowering those who have become disempowered by circumstances.

This workshop will inform attendees about the work of Inclusion Scotland with a particular focus on their Civic Participation projects: Access to Politics, the Access to Elected Office Fund and Acces to Public Appointments.

The workshop will then break into small gorups to focus on people’s experience of the barriers that disabled people come across in civic participation and then look at some solutions to reduce these barriers.

This will equip people to gow away and assess how inclusive they currently are in their own work and also stimulate ideas as to how people can become more active in the areas they choose.

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This workshop will tell the story of how sport can be adapted to become open to everyone. The unique policies of Inclusive Skating rely heavily on the care providedby the families and carers and are built into the competition, club and event system. This is quite different from the usual systems that exist that exist for the able bodied in sport.

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This workshop will share Disability Co-operative Network’s journey in raising the profile of social barriers in engaging and participation of museums and heritage space within towns and cities. How we work with disabled people, families and organisations in creating collaborative inclusive practice within the sector as a workforce and service provider to enable more disabled and neurodivergent people to engage and participate in museums and heritage. This workshop will showcase current work, creating and sharing experiences with participants in their journey in how they visit and engage with public spaces.

There will be take away tips, advice and resources and participants will be invited to continue to work with Museums Disability Co-operative Network.

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This workshop will:

• Support participants to understand the complex needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities but also their aspirations for an inclusive life;
• Share resources and models of working that support inclusion of this group of people and their families;
• Inspire us to work together to promote inclusive leisure, sport and culture for all.

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This workshop will:

Share with people examples of the positive experience of sport in the life of people wiht disabilities from the personal experience of both Michael Kerr and Anne-Marie Monaghan. It will demonstrate that having physical challenges shouldn’t exclude you from participating in sport.

It will highlight both the challenges and the opportunities of involvement in sport.

It will take people through the ‘lived experience’ of setting up clubs, participating and competing, and most importantly, encourage people to have a go!

This workshop will:

• Demonstrate that there are ways to support older people across Scotland with dementia, depression and loneliness by engaging them in social activities and helping them to recall memories of watching or playing sport.
• With sharing memories of sporting moments and tapping into a passion for sport we help people to connect with others and with their past, reawakening ositive thoughts and feelings that otherwise remain hidden away.
• The opportunities to be actively involved with creative approaches in order to encourage people to make a difference with a little bit of fun along the way, through sport.

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This workshop will:

• Raise awareness of the challenges that autistic people and their families experience when attending football matches
• Show how businesses can be a welcoming place for autistic people and their families with the Autism Friendly Award
• Provide an understanding of how Rangers Football Club created a safe and quiet space for families in Broxi’s Den and achieved the Autism Friendly Award

This workshop will:

• Show the aims of the Gig Buddies project and how these are achieved.
  Look at the social barriers that people with a learning disability face and the work Gig Buddies is doing to remove these
• Show a different take on what ‘befriending’ can be, and how
  all parties can gain from it
• Provide ideas on how to creatively run truly inclusive community events for people with additional support needs.

This workshop will:

• Show how participation in football is benefitting lives
  through inclusivity by helping to combat isolation,
  social exclusion & loneliness.
• Demonstrate how football is an all-encompassing
  sport that brings people together to improve lives by helping
  with physical activity and social interactions.
• Show football is a sport that is open and available to all.

This workshop will tell delegates about an exciting new, community-led venture to develop fully inclusive play facilities in Scotland.
Play As One Scotland (pa1s) are a new Scottish charity that believe all children, no matter their ability, should be able to play together.

A group of us got together and set up (pa1s) as a registered charity to lobby and fundraise with the aim of ‘Making Play Inclusive for All’ In June this year the First Minister opened Scotland’s very first fully inclusive play area in Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline.

We’re looking forward to telling you the story behind the park development, and our future plans!

This workshop will:

• Explore how groups have created a community for positive paths and established a positive future for both our members and their carers.
  Exploring our social groups and social breaks.
• Explore how they have developed and the positive potential they create for our members, carers and Positive paths as a Community Interest Company.

Improving public health and reducing health inequalities are key priorities in Scotland.  There is a strong evidence base for the health and well-being benefits of ‘green exercise’, which encompasses ways of using the outdoors and contact with nature to foster better health.

This workshop will explain the work being led by Scottish Natural Heritage, in collaboration with other public partners and health services, to maximise the contribution of Scotland’s natural environment to a healthier Scotland through the Natural Health Service action programme.